Word: tlingits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thrones and Colossi. To move from the grand volumes and rhythmical, steely incision of these Tlingit house posts and Eskimo masks into the world of American neoclassical sculpture is to shift to provincialism. It is also to descend from necessity into sentiment, and, in a sense, from confidence into anxiety. Compared with the pressure of ritual meaning in the best Indian art, the search for a language of classical form and Roman gravitas conducted by the professionals who rose to commemorate the American ideal after the Revolution-Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers and Thomas Crawford-looks curiously wistful. Hiram Powers...
...life mask of George Washington, one of three in existence, for about $375,000 and display it in the state capital, Olympia, by July 4, 1976. But most Bicentennial projects in the West are drawn from the region's own history and heritage. Alaskans are rebuilding the Tlingit and Haida tribal houses in Angoon and restoring a log headquarters built in 1793 by Russian fur traders in Kodiak. Hawaiians are constructing a 60-ft., double-hulled sailing canoe in which a crew of 24 will leave on April 1, 1976, for a month-long voyage to Tahiti and back...
...inherit the Earth. If you would prefer a little color in your life, try the exhibit of English embroidery and be thankful you weren't female in the seventeenth century. The stuff is beautiful, but...Also, I have been told by the usual reliable sources to beware of the Tlingit Thunderbird. He bites...
...North, according to the Museum of Fine Arts (where it continues through May 26), is "the most important exhibition of Native Alaskan art ever assembled." The Tlingit Totem Pole still stands at the top of the grand stairs, and there's a bird whose picture The Crimson printed upside down and the Real Paper printed backwards...
...Tlingit art was infiltrated by white gold-seekers. That glaring Thunderbird and his ilk must have scared a good number of interloping foreigners back to safety and Seattle. But that glorious beast has been toned down enough by the 19th century classicism of the MFA rotunda to loose this power. On the whole, it's a good thing. People should not be scared away from this show...